{"id":62406,"date":"2016-11-26T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=62406"},"modified":"2016-11-25T17:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T00:59:45","slug":"the-role-of-the-laity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/26\/the-role-of-the-laity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of the Laity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some circles, it&#8217;s very popular to complain about those in leadership, especially our bishops. A while ago I\u00a0came across this challenging quotation\u00a0from Archbishop Chaput, one which I think is well worthy of\u00a0meditation:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62407\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chaput.jpg\" alt=\"chaput\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chaput.jpg 800w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chaput-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chaput-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chaput-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chaput-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chaput-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Chaput-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is the vocation of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>every<\/strong><\/span> Catholic to work in\u00a0advancing\u00a0the Kingdom. Therefore, prior to\u00a0unleashing unbridled vitriol against the shepherds, I must first ask myself if I have been truly\u00a0steadfast in contending\u00a0for the Faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some circles, it&#8217;s very popular to complain about those in leadership, especially our bishops. A while ago I\u00a0came across this challenging quotation\u00a0from Archbishop Chaput, one which I think is well worthy of\u00a0meditation: It is the vocation of every Catholic to work in\u00a0advancing\u00a0the Kingdom. Therefore, prior to\u00a0unleashing unbridled vitriol against the shepherds, I must first ask myself if I have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3904,1027,3905],"class_list":["post-62406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-archbishop-chaput","tag-bishops","tag-laity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62802,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406\/revisions\/62802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}